[Intro — a single gong strike, long fading resonance] [Female Lead Vocal, whispered] I came here to awaken. [Male Baritone, distant] Who came? [Verse 1] [Female Lead Vocal] I crossed a thousand years of silence [Female Lead Vocal] Learned how to watch without blame [Male Baritone] You gave a name to the absence [Male Baritone] Then framed it in gold all the same [Female Lead Vocal] I followed the footprints of sages [Female Lead Vocal] Left all my certainties behind [Male Baritone] You changed the script and the stages [Male Baritone] But who is watching your mind? [Pre-Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] If I wake up, who will know? [Male Baritone] The awakened wants a witness [Female Lead Vocal] If I let the need to see go [Male Baritone] Who lets go of what, exactly? [Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] No one is awakening [Male Baritone] No one is asleep [Female Lead Vocal] The bell keeps saying something [Male Baritone] But the answer’s buried deep [Female Lead Vocal] I’m searching for the one who sees [Male Baritone] He’s hiding in the question [Female Lead Vocal] When I can’t find the word “me” [Male Baritone] Only echoes, no solution [Instrumental Passage — gong pulses become a rhythm; bass enters, guitar climbs against the fading resonance] [Verse 2] [Female Lead Vocal] I smashed the altar of my pride [Female Lead Vocal] Then admired the broken stone [Male Baritone] Even humility has a throne [Male Baritone] Where the self can sit alone [Female Lead Vocal] I said the world was an illusion [Female Lead Vocal] And thought I’d found the secret door [Male Baritone] But that brilliant revelation [Male Baritone] Was another mirror on the wall [Pre-Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] If I wake up, who will know? [Male Baritone] Knowing is another net [Female Lead Vocal] If I let even hope go [Male Baritone] Hope may return in a new outfit yet [Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] No one is awakening [Male Baritone] No one is asleep [Female Lead Vocal] The bell keeps saying something [Male Baritone] But the answer’s buried deep [Female Lead Vocal] I’m searching for the one who sees [Male Baritone] He’s hiding in the question [Female Lead Vocal] When I can’t find the word “me” [Male Baritone] Only echoes, no solution [Bridge — silence, then one deep gong strike] [Female Lead Vocal, fragile] Then why does this feel like light? [Male Baritone, gentle] Why must the feeling have a name? [Female Lead Vocal] Who stands behind my eyes tonight? [Male Baritone] Who wants to know who’s looking? [Build — drums and guitars rise around the gong, vocals alternate] [Female Lead Vocal] I won’t turn silence to a prize [Male Baritone] Silence isn’t something won [Female Lead Vocal] I won’t prove the self has died [Male Baritone] Nothing needs to prove it’s gone [Final Chorus — powerful, spacious] [Female Lead Vocal] No one is awakening [Male Baritone] No one is asleep [Female Lead Vocal] The bell itself is waking [Male Baritone] And the world has lost its seams [Female Lead Vocal] I can’t find the one who sees [Male Baritone] I can’t find the one who seeks [Female Lead Vocal] When everything goes quiet in me [Male Baritone] The gong rings out — no one beneath [Outro — long gong resonance, guitar and voices disappear one by one] [Female Lead Vocal, whisper] Was that all? [Male Baritone, whisper] Who asks?
